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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><br>
                            Misconceptions about Taliban</font></b></p>
                          <p align="left"><a href="#BanSchool" class="Text">Did 
                            the Taliban ban school?</a><br>
                            <a href="#BanTV" class="Text">Did the Taliban ban 
                            TV, VCR &amp; music?</a><br>
                            <a href="#WomenWork" class="Text">Are women allowed 
                            to job, go to hospitals or even go out of their houses?</a><br>
                            <a href="#GirlSchool" class="Text">Did the Taliban 
                            closed girl 's schools?</a><br>
                            <a href="#Veil" class="Text">Are women forced to wear 
                            a veil?</a><br>
                            <a href="#HateWomen" class="Text">Do the Taliban hate 
                            women?</a><br>
                            <a href="#Depressed" class="Text">Are Taliban women 
                            depressed?</a><br>
                            <a href="#Stability" class="Text">The Taliban didn't 
                            bring stability to Afghanistan?</a><br>
                            <a href="#Opium" class="Text">The Taliban produce 
                            75% of the worlds opium?</a><br>
                            <a href="#People" class="Text">Have the Taliban done 
                            anything for the people?</a><br>
                            <a href="#OtherCountries" class="Text">Do the Taliban 
                            dislike to go other countries?</a><br>
                            <a href="#TrainingCamps" class="Text">Why does the 
                            Taliban permit terrorist training camps in Afghanistan? 
                            </a><br>
                            <a href="#Statues" class="Text">They blew up the Buddhist 
                            statues!</a><br>
                            <a href="#Patches" class="Text">They made Hindus wear 
                            patches like the Nazi's did to the Jews!</a><br>
                            <a href="#Afghanistan" class="Text">Was Afghanistan 
                            under the Taliban a terrorist country?</a></p>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="BanSchool"></a>Did 
                            the Taliban ban school?</font></b></p>
                          <p align="left">The Taliban ordered people to follow 
                            Islam, give up Communism, stop having schools with 
                            mixed sexes, co-education, close bars and cinemas 
                            and 41 brothels in Kabul and stop photography (in 
                            any form) of live persons except in Official documents. 
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="BanTV"></a>Did 
                            the Taliban ban TV, VCR &amp; music?</font></b></p>
                          <p align="left"><b>And of mankind is he who purchases 
                            idle talks (i.e. music, singing, etc.) to mislead 
                            (men) from the Path of Allah without knowledge, and 
                            takes it (the Path of Allah, the Verses of the Qur'an) 
                            by way of mockery. For such there will be a humiliating 
                            torment (in the Hell-Fire).</b> [Luqman 31:6]</p>
                          <p align="left">Kabul Radio aired a message that wanted 
                            the people to &quot;Forsake TV, VCR, songs and music. 
                            Give up copying the ways of non-muslims, shaving off 
                            or trimming the beard, interest, gambling &amp; other 
                            sins. Muslims can only acquire a peaceful life in 
                            the world by giving up their rebellion and disobedience 
                            to the orders of Allah, s.w.t.&quot;. </p>
                          <p align="left"><b>I heard Allah's Apostle (PBUH) saying; 
                            &quot;Angels (of Mercy) do not enter a house wherein 
                            there is a dog or a picture of a living creature (a 
                            human being or an animal).&quot;</b> [Hadith - Bukhari 
                            4:448, Narrated Abu Talha] </p>
                          <p align="left">In other words a direct threat to the 
                            Western way of life and a threat to Western propaganda 
                            through multiple media.Capitalism, consumerism and 
                            the New World Order cannot then progress into Afghanistan 
                            through the usual means leaving only military action. 
                          </p>
                          <p align="left"><b>They ask thee concerning wine and 
                            gambling. Say: &quot;In them is great sin, and some 
                            profit, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit.&quot; 
                            They ask thee how much they are to spend; say: &quot;What 
                            is beyond your needs.&quot; Thus doth Allah make clear 
                            to you His Signs: in order that ye may consider.</b> 
                            [Al-Baqarah 219]</p>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="WomenWork"></a>Are 
                            women allowed to work, go to schools or even go out 
                            of their houses? </font></b> </p>
                          <p><b>&quot;O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your 
                            Lord Who created youfrom a single soul and from it 
                            its mate and from them both have spreadabroad a multitude 
                            of men and women. Be careful of your duty toward Allahin 
                            Whom you claim (your rights) of one another, and towards 
                            the wombs (that bore you). Lo! Allah has been a Watcher 
                            over you.&quot;</b> [4:1]</p>
                          <p>CNN and BBC gave headlines about women not allowed 
                            to work, go to schools or even go out of their houses. 
                            This was true only temporarily directly after the 
                            war. Women are allowed to work and to go to school 
                            since 1997, this was true only for a few months following 
                            the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in September 
                            1996. </p>
                          <p>The Taliban have been criticized for violating women's 
                            rights. Do you know what happened before them? women 
                            were used as animals. They were sold actually. The 
                            Taliban stopped this abominable practice.</p>
                          <p>They didn't use to have any say in the selection 
                            of their husbands. First thing the Taliban have done 
                            is to let them choose their future.</p>
                          <p>Another thing that used to happen in Afghanistan 
                            was women were exchanged as gifts. Of course, this 
                            was not something religious; this was something cultural. 
                            When two fighting tribes wanted reconciliation, they 
                            would exchange women. And this has been stopped.</p>
                          <p> <b>&quot;By the creation of the male and female; 
                            Verily, (the ends) ye strive for are diverse.&quot;</b> 
                            [92:3-4]<br>
                            In these verses, God declares that He created men 
                            and women to be different, with unique roles, functions 
                            and skills. As in society, where there is a division 
                            of labor, so too in a family; each member has different 
                            responsibilities .Generally, Islam upholds that women 
                            are entrusted with the nurturing role, and men, with 
                            the guardian role. Therefore, women are given the 
                            right of financial support. <br>
                            Islam recognizes and fosters the natural differences 
                            between men and women despite their equality. Some 
                            types of work are more suitable for men and other 
                            types for women. This in no way diminishes either's 
                            effort nor its benefit. God will reward both genders 
                            equally for the value of their work, though it may 
                            not necessarily be the same activity. </p>
                          <p>Health facilities for women have increased 200% during 
                            Taliban administration. Prior to the Taliban Isl&acirc;mic 
                            Movement's taking control of Kabul, there were 350 
                            beds in all hospitals in Kabul. Currently, there are 
                            more than 950 beds for women in exclusive women's 
                            hospitals. Some hospitals which have specifically 
                            been allocated to women include Rabia Balkhi Hospital, 
                            Malali Hospital, Khair Khana Hospital, Indira Gandhi 
                            Child Health Hospital, Atta Turk Hospital, Kuwait 
                            Red Crescent Hospital, Contagious Disease Hospital 
                            and T.B. Hospital. Moreover, there are 32 mother and 
                            child health clinics. In addition to this, women receive 
                            treatment at ICRC and the Sandy Gal Orthopaedic Centers. 
                            In all these hospitals and clinics, women work as 
                            doctors and nurses to provide health services to female 
                            patients.<br>
                            <br>
                            True, that women were not working in the ministry 
                            of defense, like other countries. The Taliban don't 
                            want Muslim women to be fighter pilots, or to be used 
                            as objects of decoration for advertisements. But they 
                            do work. They work in the Ministry of Health, Interior, 
                            Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Affairs, 
                            and so on.</p>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="GirlSchool"></a>Did 
                            the Taliban closed girl's schools ? But according 
                            to Swedish NGO... </font></b> </p>
                          <p>Similarly the Taliban don't have any problem with 
                            women's education. The Taliban have said that they 
                            want education, and they will have education whether 
                            or not they are under anybody's pressure, because 
                            that is part of Islamic belief. The Taliban are ordered 
                            to do that. When they say that there should be segregated 
                            schools, it does not mean that they don't want Muslim 
                            women to be educated. It is true that the Taliban 
                            are against co-education; but it is not true that 
                            they are against women's education.</p>
                          <p><b>&quot;Seeking knowledge is a mandate for every 
                            Muslim (male and female).&quot;</b> [Hadith]</p>
                          <p>the Taliban do have schools even now, but the problem 
                            is the resources. they cannot expand these programs. 
                            Before, thier government numerous curriculums were 
                            going on. There were curriculums that preached for 
                            the kings, curriculums that preached for the communists, 
                            and curriculums from all the seven parties. So, the 
                            students were confused as to what to study. the Taliban 
                            have started to unify the curriculum and that is going 
                            on.</p>
                          <p><b>It is reported that Malik Ibn Huwayrith and a 
                            group of young men had come to live near the Prophet 
                            and acquire knowledge from him. When they decided 
                            to return to their respective homes, the Prophet told 
                            them, &quot;Return home to your wives and children 
                            and stay with them. Teach them (what you have learnt) 
                            and ask them to act upon it.&quot;</b> [Al -Bukhari]</p>
                          <p>Despite the limited economic resources of the Isl&acirc;mic 
                            Emirate of Afghanistan to fund educational institutes, 
                            universities in Qandahar, Kabul and Nangrahar provinces 
                            are operating as usual. Several NGOs have been allowed 
                            to fund schools in Afghanistan, besides the schools 
                            funded by the government. Contrary to reports about 
                            girls education in the press, the figures obtained 
                            from the education sector in Afghanistan, reveal that 
                            girls education in rural Afghanistan is increasing. 
                            According to a survey conducted by the Swedish Committee 
                            for Afghanistan (SCA), almost 80 per cent of the girls 
                            schools located in rural areas under the administration 
                            of the Isl&acirc;mic Emirate of Afghanistan are operating 
                            in full swing. Ms. Pia Karlsson, education advisor 
                            at the Education Technical Support Unit (ETSU) of 
                            SCA, said in a recent interview published by the Frontier 
                            Post, a Peshawar based English daily that only in 
                            Ghazni province, where the Isl&acirc;mic Emirate under 
                            the leadership of TIMA has control for the last two 
                            years, approximately 85 per cent of the girls are 
                            still in schools. Ms. Karlsson says, &quot;The picture 
                            outside the cities is totally different.&quot; <br>
                            The SCA which has been supporting elementary education 
                            in Afghanistan since 1984, currently supports 422 
                            boys schools, 125 girls schools and 897 mixed schools 
                            (co-education) in the forms of primary schools and 
                            home schools. During the survey, she concentrated 
                            on 100 SCA supported girls schools in the nine provinces: 
                            Kabul, Kunar, Laghman, Ningarhar, Ghzani, Logar, Paktika, 
                            Paktya and Wardak. All these provinces are under the 
                            administration of the Isl&acirc;mic Emirate of Afghanistan. 
                            According to the survey, female attendance was at 
                            94 per cent and of the 7834 girls enrolled, 7341 were 
                            found present. More significantly, at least 170 female 
                            teachers were found teaching in these schools. Similarly, 
                            in Kunduz province, 122 schools are operating with 
                            390 female teachers teaching at the schools. The Isl&acirc;mic 
                            Emirate is ready to open girls and boys schools with 
                            appropriate foreign assistance. and in Kandahar. there 
                            are more girls students studying in the faculty of 
                            medical sciences than boys are. <br>
                            This change of policy is not reported by Western media 
                            like CNN since it does not suit their purposes. </p>
                          <p><b>Contact</b>: Information Unit, Swedish Committee 
                            for Afghanistan, GPO Box 689 Peshawar, Pakistan<br>
                            <b>E-mail</b>: <a href="mailto:%20infosca@brain.net.pk" class="Text">infosca@brain.net.pk</a> 
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Veil"></a>Are 
                            women forced to wear a veil?</font></b></p>
                          <p><b>O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters 
                            and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks 
                            (veils)* all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves 
                            completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). 
                            That will be better, that they should be known (as 
                            free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And 
                            Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. </b>[Al-Ahzab 
                            33:59]</p>
                          <p>Muslim women who are Afghanistani citizens are perhaps 
                            forced to carry a veil in public. However this is 
                            something that Muslim women always have done voluntarily 
                            anyway in the area for several hundreds of years, 
                            even before Taliban. It is part of their culture and 
                            part of their careful interpretation of Islam. It 
                            stops men from oogling their natural beauty. It is 
                            a voluntary action by the women who want to please 
                            their creator by following Islam. Their beauty is 
                            only for their husbands, closest relatives and sometimes 
                            closest female friends. But women are not caned or 
                            stoned. </p>
                          <p>Female Hindus that they don't want to carry a veil 
                            ,didn't want to be disturbed by the Afghan police. 
                            The Hindus want to carry tags hidden or openly identifying 
                            them as Hindus.<br>
                            The couple working for a humanitarian organization, 
                            Hope Worldwide told BBC, &quot;We know the Taliban 
                            are the sincere people, have strong belief. And our 
                            personal experience is whatever charges they will 
                            bring and they are reasonable&quot;.<br>
                            About the observation of purdah by women in Afghanistan 
                            Doctor Mark Martin 's wife, Vicky said, &quot; No 
                            it is for the local women and not for foreigners. 
                            But I wear the chadar, the scarf over my head. So 
                            as long as my head is covered, it is fine&quot;.</p>
                          <p> It is well-known that the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) 
                            covered their faces any time non-mahram men were near. 
                            A woman named Asma, who was not a wife of the Prophet 
                            (PBUH), was also recorded as covering her face. Easily, 
                            one can conclude that wearing veil is halal (permissible).</p>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="HateWomen"></a>Do 
                            the Taliban hate women?</font></b></p>
                          <p><b>&quot;Beware that you do not call on women who 
                            are alone,&quot; said the Messenger of Allah. One 
                            of the Companions asked, &quot;O Messenger of Allah, 
                            what about the younger or elder brother of the husband?&quot; 
                            The Prophet replied, &quot;He is death&quot;.</b> 
                            [Tirmidhi, Bukhari and Muslim]</p>
                          <p>The Shariah has placed restrictions on men meeting 
                            strange women privately. Similarly no other man other 
                            than her husband is allowed to touch any part of a 
                            woman's body.</p>
                          <p> <b>&quot;And among His signs is that He created 
                            for you mates from among yourselves that you may live 
                            in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and 
                            mercy between you; Verily, in that are signs for people 
                            who reflect.&quot;</b> [Qu'ran 30:21]</p>
                          <p>According to a Japanese NGO member, who visited Afghanistan 
                            under the Taliban in December 1999, When an Islamic 
                            woman takes a bus, I have never seen those who are 
                            standing. Even old men give up his seat to a woman. 
                            The men take care their family so eagerly. Man protect 
                            and take care his wife and children using his all 
                            power. The Western society, where the newspaper is 
                            full of stories about violence in a family such as 
                            wife abuse almost every day, also has a considerable 
                            problem, and it is not said generally that Islamic 
                            society is more female discriminated. </p>
                          <p>The women are the male Talibans own wifes, daughters, 
                            sisters and other relatives. The Taliban don't hate 
                            women. </p>
                          <p>The Prophet (pbuh) said: <b>&quot;The most perfect 
                            believers are the best in conduct. And the best of 
                            you are those who are best to their wives.&quot; </b></p>
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                          <p align="left"><font size="3"><b><a name="Depressed"></a>Are 
                            Taliban women depressed?</b></font></p>
                          <p><b>&quot;Men are the maintainers of women because 
                            Allah has made some of them to excel others and because 
                            they spend of their wealth (for the support of women).&quot;</b> 
                            [Qu'ran 4:34]</p>
                          <p>This guardianship and greater financial responsibility 
                            is given to men, requires that they provide women 
                            with not only monetary support but also physical protection 
                            and kind and respectful treatment. </p>
                          <p>Women are often depressed because of poverty, years 
                            of Soviet war, many have become widows, civil war 
                            and lack of quality food. The Taliban cannot be accused 
                            of anything of this. It was Soviet that attacked Afghanistan 
                            not the other way around. And Soviet paid no compensation. 
                            Women are depressed in the west too when they are 
                            poor. <br>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Stability"></a>The 
                            Taliban didn't bring stability to Afghanistan?</font></b></p>
                          <p>The Taliban has created a much needed stability in 
                            90% of the country. The opposition leader was killed 
                            on the 9th or 11th of September. Perhaps it is no 
                            coincedence. The opposition was supported by various 
                            countries.</p>
                          <p>The Taliban has disarmed the people to stop armed 
                            conflicts between scattered rivaling groups.<br>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Opium"></a>The 
                            Taliban produce 75% of the worlds opium?</font></b></p>
                          <p>The Taliban has stopped the opium production, search 
                            BBC (4,000 tons a year 75% of the worlds supply). 
                            And this in spite of that Opium production requires 
                            much less water than other crops do. This in a country 
                            with severe draught since three years in some areas 
                            and with threat from cross pollination with biogenetically 
                            engineered crops in neighboring Pakistan that could 
                            result in terminator seeds or crops demanding even 
                            more than average amounts of water. Despite the fact 
                            that the Taliban banned production early in 2000 as 
                            unislamic the western media continues to use this 
                            against them.</p>
                          <p>For more details visit: <a href="http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/heroin.html" target="_blank" class="Text">http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/heroin.html</a></p>
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                          <p align="left"><font size="3"><b><a name="People"></a>Have 
                            the Taliban done anything for the people?</b></font></p>
                          <p>The Taliban have been in government for only five 
                            years, and the following things that they have done, 
                            and many of you may not know:</p>
                          <p><b>1.)</b> The first thing they have done is reunifying 
                            the fragmented country. Afghanistan was formerly fragmented 
                            into five parts. The Taliban unified it when nobody 
                            else could do it.</p>
                          <p><b>2.)</b> Second thing they have done, which everybody 
                            failed to do, was disarming the population. After 
                            the war every Afghan got a Kalashnikov, and even sophisticated 
                            weapons such as stinger missiles, and they even got 
                            fighter planes and fighter helicopters. Disarming 
                            these people seemed to be impossible. The United Nations 
                            in 1992 made an appeal asking for 3 billion dollars 
                            to re-purchase those arms. And because of its impracticality, 
                            that plan never materialized, and everybody forgot 
                            about Afghanistan. So the second thing the Taliban 
                            have done is to disarm 95% of that country.</p>
                          <p><b>3.)</b> The third thing that the Taliban have 
                            done is to establish a single administration in Afghanistan, 
                            which did not exist for 10 years.</p>
                          <p><b>4.)</b> The fourth achievement that they have 
                            that is surprising to everybody is that the Taliban 
                            have eradicated 75% of world's opium cultivation. 
                            Before the Taliban, Afghanistan produced 75% of worlds 
                            opium. And last year we issued an edict asking the 
                            people to stop growing opium, and this year, the United 
                            Nations Drug Control Program, UNDCP, and their head, 
                            Mr. Barnard F. proudly announced that there was 0% 
                            of opium cultivation. Zero, zilch, none at all.</p>
                          <p>Incidentally this was not good news for UN itself 
                            because many of them lost their jobs. In the UNDCP, 
                            700 so called experts were working there and they 
                            got their salaries and they never went into Afghanistan. 
                            So when the Taliban issued this edict, they were not 
                            happy. And this year they lost their jobs.</p>
                          <p><b>5.)</b> The fifth achievement that they have, 
                            is the restoration of Human rights. Now, you may think 
                            that the Taliban are involved in violation of Human 
                            Rights. The reality is exactly the opposite. Among 
                            the fundamental rights of a human being is the right 
                            to live. Before them, nobody could live peacefully 
                            in Afghanistan.</p>
                          <p>The first thing the Taliban have done, is to give 
                            to the people a secure and peaceful life. The second 
                            major thing that they have restored is to give them 
                            free and fair justice; you don't have to buy justice, 
                            unlike here. In Afghanistan justice was free and readily 
                            available.</p>
                          <p>The Taliban has opened schools and started to repair 
                            roads etc. As much as they can afford in a country 
                            under sanctions from the West and ravaged by wars 
                            during 20 years. </p>
                          <p>Taliban government transferred a wine brewery into 
                            medicine factory. <br>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="OtherCountries"></a>Do 
                            the Taliban dislike to go other countries?</font></b></p>
                          <p><b>(Rest-assured), For sure, your protecting friends 
                            are Allah, His messenger and those who believe, who 
                            establish salah (five times obligatory prayers) and 
                            pay the zakah (the compulsory payment) and they bow 
                            down!</b> [Al-Maidah: 55] </p>
                          <p>Before US Attack on Afghanistan, the Taliban were 
                            under sanctions. And the sanctions have caused a lot 
                            of problems. Despite that they already had been going 
                            through so many problems - the 23 years of continuous 
                            war, the total destruction of thier infrastructure, 
                            and the problem of refugees, and the problem of land 
                            mines in Afghan agricultural lands - all of a sudden 
                            the United Nations, with the provocation of Russia, 
                            is imposing sanctions on Afghanistan. And the sanctions 
                            have been approved; The Taliban were under sanctions. 
                            Several hundred children died a month ago. Seven hundred 
                            children died because of malnutrition and the severe 
                            cold weather. Nobody even talked about that. Everybody 
                            knows about the statues. </p>
                          <p> Ameer ul Momin'een Mullah Omar said sanctions are 
                            nothing new to the Muslim nation. &quot;We believe 
                            that we are on the path of truth and that Allah will 
                            make victorious.&quot; He said the economic curbs 
                            that have been set upon Afghanistan by the Security 
                            Council are illegal and unjustified, and stem from 
                            the American Government's undue influence on the Council's 
                            decisions. &quot;These restrictions serve only to 
                            further harm the oppressed people of Afghanistan, 
                            who have been victimized by 20 years of continuous 
                            conflict.&quot; </p>
                          <p><b>Oh! Those who believe! Take never for intimates 
                            others than your own people, who would leave no stone 
                            unturned to ruin you, they love all those things which 
                            trouble you, for sure the hatred is clearly recognized 
                            from their mouth (their words and face actions) &amp; 
                            that which'r hidden in their breast is greater! Surely 
                            very clearly revelation has been explained for you 
                            so that you could understand.</b> [Ali-Imran: 118]</p>
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                          <p align="left"><font size="3"><b><a name="TrainingCamps"></a>Why 
                            does the Taliban permit terrorist training camps in 
                            Afghanistan?</b></font></p>
                          <p> Mullah Omar said, &quot;There are no terrorist training 
                            camps in Afghanistan, and we do not permit any individual 
                            or organization to use our soil as a base of operations 
                            against any country.&quot;</p>
                          <p>Military training is an Islamic obligation, mandatory 
                            upon every sane, Muslim male who has the means to 
                            travel and obtain this training, as Allah says in 
                            the Quran: <b>&quot;And prepare against them what 
                            you can, of power...&quot;</b> [Quran 8:60]. </p>
                          <p>Terrorism is acts of violence and terror committed 
                            against innocent people in order to reach a political 
                            objective. Islam permits self-defence and protection 
                            against oppression, but it does not permit terrorism 
                            as defined by the West. Islam does not permit the 
                            harming of innocent, non-combatant civilians who are 
                            not fighting the Muslims or driving the Muslims out 
                            of their homes or supporting those who fight or drive 
                            the Muslims out of their homes. Islam does not teach 
                            a 'turn the other cheek' attitude unlike Christianity. 
                            If there are camps in Afghanistan where Muslims can 
                            obtain military training, then there is nothing wrong 
                            with that according to the Shariah. However, if there 
                            are camps that turn Muslims into terrorists, then 
                            the Shariah does not permit that.</p>
                          <p>It is interesting to note another double-standard 
                            adopted by the West as regards Taliban. Israel only 
                            operates dozens of such military training camps for 
                            both Israeli and non-Israeli Jews under the Kibbutz 
                            scheme. All Israelis and all non-Israeli Jews are 
                            entitled to free military training in these camps. 
                            Rather, it is encouraged for Jews to go to Israel 
                            and obtain this training. Western countries do not 
                            mind Jews travelling to Israel to obtain military 
                            training, but object to Muslims travelling to countries 
                            like Afghanistan to learn a part of their religion, 
                            and military training is part of Islam, whether we 
                            like it or not, and we cannot do anything about it. 
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Statues"></a>They 
                            blew up the Buddhist statues!</font></b></p>
                          <p>Buddhist pagan idol statues that had no worshippers 
                            anywhere in the whole of Afghanistan are destroyed 
                            after consultation with hundreds of scholars. </p>
                          <p>When the world is destroying our future with economic 
                            sanctions, then they have no right to worry about 
                            our past. I called my headquarters, I asked them, 
                            why are they going to blow the statues, and I talked 
                            to the head of the council of scholars of people, 
                            who had actually decided this, he told me that UNESCO 
                            and an NGO from Sweden, or from one of these Scandinavian 
                            countries Norway, Sweden, one of these they had actually 
                            come, with a project of rebuilding the face of these 
                            statues, which have worn by rain. The council of people 
                            told them to spend that money in ?aving the lives 
                            of these children, instead of spending it to restore 
                            these statues. And these guys said, &quot;No, this 
                            money is only for the statues.&quot; And the people 
                            were really pissed off. They said that, If you don 
                            t care about our children, we are going to blow those 
                            statues.</p>
                          <p>If you were in such a situation what would you do? 
                            If your children are dying in front of your eyes, 
                            and you are under sanctions, and then the same people 
                            who have imposed sanctions and are coming and building 
                            statues here? What would you do?</p>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Patches"></a>They 
                            made hindus wear patches like the Nazi's did to the 
                            Jews!</font></b></p>
                          <p>Male Hindus that want to continue to drink alcohol, 
                            smoke and shave their beards etc. didn't want to be 
                            disturbed by the Afghan police. The same with female 
                            Hindus that they don't want to carry a veil. The Hindus 
                            want to carry tags hidden or openly identifying them 
                            as Hindus. Male Hindus often look the same as Muslims 
                            with long beard and traditional clothing and are tired 
                            of being questioned by the Muslim police force too 
                            often. There has never been any demand on the Hindus 
                            to have yellow flags on the rooftops, etc. <br>
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                          <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><a name="Afghanistan"></a>Was 
                            Afghanistan under the Taliban a terrorist country? 
                            </font></b> </p>
                          <p> For Americans terrorism or terrorist means only 
                            bin Laden. Now you will not know that Afghanistan, 
                            or bin Laden was in Afghanistan for 17 years before 
                            the Taliban even existed. Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, 
                            fought the Soviet Union, and Mr. Ronald Reagan, the 
                            president of America at that time, and Mr. Dick Chaney 
                            called such people freedom fighters or the Heroes 
                            of Independence, because they were fighting for American 
                            cause. And now when the Soviet Union is fragmented, 
                            such people were not needed anymore, and they were 
                            transformed into terrorists. From heroes to terrorists. 
                            This is exactly like Mr. Yasser Arafat who was transformed 
                            from a terrorist to a hero. and Japan from Enemy to 
                            Friend. </p>
                          <p>Afghanistan is not a terrorist state; we cannot even 
                            make a needle. How are we going to be a terrorist 
                            state? How are we going to be a threat to the world? 
                            If the world terrorism is really derived from the 
                            word terror, then there are countries making weapons 
                            of mass destruction, countries making nuclear weapons, 
                            having Cluster bombs, Daisy Cutter bombs and vacuum 
                            Bombs to absorb Oxygen, they are terrorist states; 
                            we are not. <br>
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